Did system fail 16-year-old Muslim girl murdered by father
How many Aqsa Parvezs, who died Monday night after being attacked in her Mississauga home by her own father, live in the Greater Toronto Area? Aqsa, found barely alive in her bedroom by police was only 16 years old. It was well known by her friends that Aqsa was in trouble at home. The teen, who wanted to dance to Rhythm & Blues and hang out with friends like any other Canadian teen, told peers she had been struck on the arms and across the face under a strict regime followed by her parents. “She told me many times that her dad had threatened her,” her friend Dominiqua Holmes-Thompson, 16, told the Toronto Star yesterday. “She was serious.”- Wednesday, December 12, 2007